[cmeisenzahl]

A thread below just made me remember RAM Doubler! Anyone else remember this thing from the System 7 days?

At the time, circa 1994, I was working tech suppot for some retail Mac software that worked in Systems 6 (a DA in this case) and 7. Once in a while I would talk to someone that had three full rows of extensions displayed at the bottom of their screen at startup. And there was always the caller that had 2-3 "blessed" System folders. I usually told those people that they were lucky their Macs even booted. ;-)

Anyone else have some old mac memories to share? ;-)

[CharlesS]

The "three rows of extensions" were usually caused by Conflict Catcher in my experience and weren't a great big deal. Normally, only some extensions would decide to display their icons down there, but if Conflict Catcher was installed, it would display everything loadable that was in the Extensions or Control Panels folders, and then it would put the filenames under the icons to make them take up more horizontal space. Sometimes this would result in the entire screen getting filled with icons.

[Landos Mustache]

I looooved RAM doubler and speed doubler. Great products. Heck parts of speed doubler is better than OSX today.

[workerbee]

Ahhh... the black arts & magic of trying to optimize the System by tweaking Speed and RAM Doubler and every other obscure extension displayed by Conflict Catcher.
Those were the days! Colour LC (my first Mac)... Centris 610... Powermac 8500 with upgraded G3 CPU card (I think)... thanks for the memories

[- - e r i k - -]

Oh and then there were this joke extension that would put up fake extensions in the bar just for bragging rights. Muhahaha.

Loads of joke extensions rocked. Especially backwords, which reversed all text on the system, including the one you typed in yourself. Heheh.

[legacyb4]

Wow, blast from the past. Remember there used to be that utility that would compress/decompress files on the fly so you could squeeze more out of the 20MB HD (was it really that big!!!) in the Mac SE?

[CharlesS]

That would be AutoDoubler, IIRC.

[Person Man]

Originally Posted by CharlesS

That would be AutoDoubler, IIRC.

That and DiskDoubler, which in its later years was owned by Symantec. (Come to think of it, AutoDoubler was part of DiskDoubler, wasn't it?)

I remember installing it on my mother's Performa 450 in 1993. It was her first Mac, after moving up from an Apple IIgs.

[Angus_D]

I still have boxed copies of RAMDoubler and SpeedDoubler sitting around somewhere.

[philm]

Remember SoftwareFPU? Convince your apps that your FPU-less Mac had a FPU after all.

[wr11]

Okay now that is funny - In the past I had every one of these extensions on my machine!
Speed Doubler, Ram Doubler, Disk Doubler and SoftFPU. Needless to say with all that stuff speed doubler had a lot of work to do. ;-)

[production_coordinator]

Not being able to have my scanner extension and AV extension running at the same time was fun.

Not having more than 4-5 programs running at the same time without cringing (I have 24 running now without giving it a thought).

Playing the "where did you hide your programs" game when on any computer but your own...

Buying a Performa 6400... and realizing it ran VERY slow out of the box... and nearly impossible to add ram or get to any of the components.

I had a hard time switching to OS X... but looking back... it was just so backwards in many ways.

[production_coordinator]

Originally Posted by legacyb4

Wow, blast from the past. Remember there used to be that utility that would compress/decompress files on the fly so you could squeeze more out of the 20MB HD (was it really that big!!!) in the Mac SE?

Ha... how about installing legend of kyrandia on nine floppy disks...

[Salty]

I remember being terrified when my iMac wouldn't start up. Then holding down was it shift? To keep extensions off so I could try and fix things. The funny thing is it was still better than windows at the time.

[imitchellg5]

He he he I have ram doubler on my PowerBook 5300.